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UK Visas
UK Settlement Visas
UK Tourist Visas
UK Student Visas For Thais
Further Leave To Remain
Indefinite Leave To Remain
Getting UK Citizenship
EEA EU Residents in UK
Our Bangkok Office
Fees Scale And Online Payment
On Line Sponsorship Form
Appeals
Marry In Thailand
Info For Thais New To The UK
Schengen Visas
Thai Traditional Weddings
Thai Translations
Thai and UK Calendar 2008
Thailand Travel Tips
Buddhism In Thai Daily Life
An Outline of Thai History
Gold in Thailand
The OISC Explained
FAQs and Links
Terms And Conditions
Contacting Us
| Welcome To Orchid Of Siam Established 1988 |
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| For UK Visa Advice Please Call 08712886930 or 01372 210361-2 or 07956059792 |
 Orchid of Siam are authorised to provide immigration advice and services by the Immigration Services Commissioner Ref. No. F200500016. Members of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.Welcome to our site.  To read in THAI please click here:http://ezuploads.com/715/7715/80.docIn November 1988 Orchid of Siam commenced trading in Thailand as a firm dealing with translations, weddings in Thailand and arranging UK Visas for Thais. We still remain a family business with offices in Bangkok and the UK. Today our main business is in the following categories: 1. Assisting Thai nationals to a successful UK Visa application for visitors, students, civil partnerships, wives and fiancées. We are qualified by and registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner to provide immigration advice and we are full members of the UK Immigration Law Practitioner's Association and our Bangkok office is currently the only one so registered in Thailand. We are unique in that our UK based Thai consultant has personally been through the whole process of initially a tourist visa, then a wife visa, indefinite leave to remain and finally becoming a British Citizen so she can advise applicants from first hand experience. Our English OISC registered consultant is also a full member of ILPA. He has 17 years experience of working in Thailand. One of our staff is a retired Embassy Visa Entry Clearance Manager who has previously worked in the British Embassy, Bangkok with over 30 years experience in the Civil Service. We have offices both in the UK, Bangkok and Udon Thani and are the only OISC/ILPA qualified firm to do so. We offer a full visa service with free, friendly, initial advice or visa assessment available 9am-6pm Monday-Friday by telephone, E-mail or through our online forms. Please do not hesitate to contact us. We are a firm regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) which means that our advisers have passed the professional competence examinations and have the necessary post qualification experience to qualify for a public practicing certificate. An OISC firm is required to undergo an annual external audit of their accounts and at least an annual audit of visa cases to ensure compliance with the OISC standards. A separate audited Clients Account is required to hold money on behalf of clients. The OISC has a complaints procedure/ombudsman service to protect the public and all fees have to be approved by the OISC. We are obliged to undergo compulsory continuous professional development courses to keep abreast of changes to existing legislation and new laws. As part of the Home Office ‘umbrella’ the OISC works in conjunction with UK Visas, the Borders & Immigration Agency, Home Office, UK Work Permits and the British Embassies around the World to ensure the highest standards of applications. You will probably have noted that all visa and related forms include a request for details of the OISC registration number in order that registered firms can be monitored. As at 31st December 2007 only one Thai national is registered with both the OISC and the UK Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) and she is one of our directors. Our clients have included solicitors, barristers, doctors, millionaires and a whole range of people including supermarket employees. 2. Arranging legal marriage registrations for both Thai and British nationals in Thailand. 3. Certified translators of Thai, our Stamp of Authentication is accepted by the Home Office, the British Embassy in Bangkok and the Royal Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 4. Assisting with Settlement and Further Leave To Remain applications and UK Citizenship (Naturalisation) applications. 5. Assisting EEA/EU nationals who are exercising their Treaty rights to live and/or work in the UK who wish their Thai spouse or family members to join them in the UK under the provisions of the Treaty of Rome and related legislation. 6. Working in conjunction with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist Thai nationals who are illegally in the UK to return to Thailand voluntarily at no expense to themselves and with immunity from prosecution for immigration offences. 7. Making applications on behalf of clients to UK Visa (a Directorate made up of a combination of the Home Office and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and the Home Office Borders and Immigration Agency for immigration related matters. 8. We offer existing clients discounted accommodation in Bangkok, see Our Bangkok Office page for details. Being located in Surrey we are only about 30 minutes from London Waterloo, Victoria or London Bridge stations and very near the M25. The nearest landmark is Epsom Hospital and we are situted next to it on the Woodcote side. We welcome personal visitors by appointment. The other pages on this site are for general information only and are of interest to anyone wishing to marry a Thai national or just wishing to learn more about Thailand. Our Bangkok office works to the instructions of the immigration advisers based in the UK on all aspects of obtaining UK Visas for Thai nationals and they assist the Thai applicant at all stages of the UK Visa process. Our UK office similarly helps the UK based sponsor. We are now in our twentieth year of operation dealing with all types of visa applications for Thais and have conducted many problematic applications for UK visas. Both in the UK and Bangkok we have Thai speakers and translators to ensure that the Thai visa applicant understands everything in the Thai language and that the UK visa sponsor understands exactly what is happening at every stage of the application. Our site is designed with you in mind and we hope you find it easy to navigate. We have attempted to answer the most commonly asked questions in the following pages however please feel free to E-mail us if you cannot find the information you want. The page designed for Thais New to the UK contains information you may wish to consider before your partner arrives in the UK and also to try to assist with adjusting to a new and very different lifestyle.  We hope you enjoy your visit and we look forward to welcoming you again soon. We understand that people want detailed information from a web site and we try to supply as much as possible, however we cannot cover all possibilities so please feel free to ask us any questions you may have. Please use the search facility at the bottom of the pages on this site to seek information from the Orchid of Siam site. For Current Times in London and Bangkok (London Time Displayed):
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